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5 Written Questions

1. spectators sitting in the yard
2. period of drama in which Shakespeare played the central role
3. more successful of the two playwrights, blank verse
4. the author of the scandalous political treatise The Prince
5. theatre company of touring actors, singers and/or dancers

5 Matching Questions

1. Renaissance
2. Jacobean Era
3. slapstick
4. Cellarage
5. Pedro Calderon de la Barca

1. a life is a dream, philosophical, priest
2. b comedy
3. c access via a 4X4 foot trapdoor
4. d rebirth, renewed interest in classical civilization that burgeoned throughout western Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries.
5. e shakespeare and his comtemporaries flourished equally under the subsequent rule of king james I

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. play of profession artists also interpreted as "comedy of humors"
   1. Commedia erudite
   2. Life is a dream
   3. Commedia dell arte
   4. Cellarage
2. stood at the rear of the Shakespearean platform, butting against the façade of the tiring house and permitting entrances through curtains or other openings
   1. slapstick
   2. Pavilion
   3. Folio
   4. Lazzi
3. unryhmed iambic pentameter
   1. Heavens
   2. Tiring House
   3. Blank verse
   4. Yard
4. single play editions
   1. Folio
   2. Yard
   3. Lazzi
   4. Quarto
5. shows villagers of the peasant town of that name suffering form brutal dominiation an sexual abuse by the local nobility
   1. Blank verse
   2. Quarto
   3. Fuenteovejuna
   4. Heavens

5 True/False Question

1. Public theatres → intimate, indoor
   

   True        False

2. Tiring House → dressing room, provided actors a variety of entries to the stage: windows, balconies, and two or more large doors.
   

   True        False

3. Chamberlains men → under rule of queen Elizabeth I, came under the personal patronage of king james I (kings men)—the theatre and the globe
   

   True        False

4. Lazzi → one end of which the players performed on a raised stage.
   

   True        False

5. Lord Admiral's Men → under rule of queen Elizabeth I, came under the personal patronage of king james I (kings men)—the theatre and the globe
   

   True        False